Talk:Cultural Experiences Abroad

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Contents 1 Excessive external links 2 The Arizona Republic article establishes notability 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Logo cea main.gif 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Logo cea main.gif

[edit] Excessive external links

This article reads like an extension of the gowithcea.com homepage. It seems a bit promotional and I am tempted to add the advert tag. But at this point I am more focused on the external links.

I count 8 gowithcea.com external links which is excessive and it needs to be pruned. I also question the wisdom of so many gowithcea.com links being used as a reference to itself. It would be more appropriate if the gowithcea.com references were replaced with links to reliable third party sources (this should be easy to do since it seems like anyone will print a press release these days.)

Another issue I have is with all the external links in the "Professional Associations" section. I think it is great that CEA is a member of all these organizations but why should this information be in a Wikipedia article? (Requestion 18:53, 2 March 2007 (UTC))

I think the question should be Is this company notable? Its external links don't establish that. Its nothing more than spam. Montco 19:22, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the notability of this company is questionable (the guideline is here WP:N). The article's creator is also behaving in a spammy fashion and a second spam warning has been added. I wonder if a web PR company was hired to create this page? (Requestion 19:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC))

Major external link pruning explanation. I removed the "Professional Associations" external links section because this sort of information isn't encyclopedic (see WP:NOT). I also removed all of the gowithcea.com self references because you can't use yourself as a reference (see WP:RS and WP:SELFPUB). (Requestion 16:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC))

[edit] The Arizona Republic article establishes notability

I found this article from the The Arizona Republic:

• "Tempe firm helps college students study abroad"

--A. B. ^(talk) 02:24, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

That article from the Arizona Republic is nice and informative. That link should be added to the main article page but I'm not sure that it establishes notability. I just re-read WP:NOTABILITY and Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). Now I'm even more confused. It seems like any company that has a non-trivial article written about it in a magazine or newspaper is notable. That just doesn't seem right to me. There are millions of small companies that have been written about in newspapers. What would happen to Wikipedia if a wiki-article was created for everyone of them? (Requestion 23:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC))

Good question -- we're at 1.7 million articles and climbing. Raises some interesting quality control issues doesn't it? --A. B. ^(talk) 01:14, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

My suspicion is that this article was created by a company like MyWikiBiz. It is just too slick. Check out the SPA User talk:Joseweb that created this page. They even used a /?Wikipedia tracking code here [1]. Creating wiki-company-profiles could be a billion dollar industry in a couple years. (Requestion 01:30, 4 April 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Logo cea main.gif

Image:Logo cea main.gif is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot 05:33, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Logo cea main.gif

Image:Logo cea main.gif is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot 23:13, 13 September 2007 (UTC)